by Paul Brenner
synopsis
Director Andrei Konchalovsky comes a cropper with this mawkish road movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi. Goldberg plays Edwina, an escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live. Belushi is Homer, a retarded man abandoned by his parents when he was a child after a smack with a baseball bat rendered him an idiot. The two team-up when Homer takes off to Oregon to visit his parents and catch up on old times. Edwina agrees to drive him there to recover the $87 that Homer has stolen from her. As they drive down the American roadways, they bond, and Edwina is granted the shining love of Homer as she lapses into a coma.
characteristics
- Unlikely Friendships
- Journey Of Self-Discovery
- Accident
- Reunion
- Patient [medical]
- Robber
- Terminal-illness
- Cripple
- Thief
- Theft
- On-the-road
- Kill
- Handicap
- Disabled
- Disability
